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BJHI Bike Tours

June 5, 2022

Author, tour guide and veteran teacher Ellen Levitt has created and conducted two bicycle tours for the Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative. A lifelong resident of

Magen David Synagogue

June 4, 2022

Magen David Synagogue Documentary about the landmarked Magen David Synagogue in Bensonhurst Brooklyn, produced by Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative in cooperation with Sephardic Heritage Project.

Kane Street Synagogue’s Heroic Congregant

August 15, 2012

Submitted by Judith Greenwald Among our early members was Civil War hero Brigadier-General Leopold C. Newman. At the age of 22, already a lawyer and